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The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

The Highest Tide

by Jim Lynch
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  • Sep 1, 2005, 272 pages
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  • Apr 2006, 272 pages
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Jim Lynch has won national journalism awards and published short fiction in literary magazines, and spent four years as the Puget Sound reporter for the Oregonian. A Washington State native, Lynch currently writes and sails from his home in Olympia, where he lives with his wife and daughter. The Highest Tide is his first novel.

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